Short Stuff

“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It’s not the most social pastime.” - Audrey Hepburn

Short Fiction

The Miraculous Flight of Owen Leach, excerpt
Blue Moon Literary & Art Review (2016)

You & Connie
Be Wilder: A Word Portland Anthology (2015)

The Long Way
Spark: A Literary Anthology (2015)

Linda Peterson Sounds Like a Reasonable Name
New Voices (2014)

Swimming
On the Rusk (2013)

Kitchen Sink Shampoo
Level Best Books (2013)

Dancing at the Zoo
Masters Review (2013)

Bet Big, Win Big
Front Porch Review (2013)

Butterflies
Three Minute Fiction, NPR (2012)

Divorce Circus
Family Circle (2010)

Short Non-fiction

Writers on Not writing

Nancy Crochiere and Nick Fuller Googins
Yi Shun Lai and Tamra Wight
Gibson Fay-Leblanc and Taryn Bowe
Clif Travers and Dave Patterson
Andrea Lani
Aaron Hamburger and Monica Wood
Mimi Manyin and Melanie Brooks
The Masters Review Readers
The Masters Review Editors

Getting unstuck

Writing About Place

Endings

Do What Scares You

Rebounding from Rejection

Funny/Not Funny

Re-Visioning Revision

Things are Getting Tense (hopefully)

Don't Go it Alone

Character: Getting to Know You

Plot as a Noun

Carefully Crafting Dialogue

Other essays

Joe
Pulse: Voices From the Heart of Medicine (2022)

(Re)Create
December (2022)

These Things Happen
Wordpeace (2022)

Care and Keeping
Solstice (2021)
*This essay won a 2022 Maine Literary Award. See my interview with MWPA here.

No Left Turns

What I Learned About Publishing with a Small Press